The discussion of Cage's reaction to the rock garden at Ryōan-ji is a pivotal moment

While the text here accompanies the photo albums, the narrative is extraordinarily insightful. The anecdote about John Cage's reaction to the rock garden at Ryōan-ji is a particularly pivotal moment, revealing inherent conflicts and collisions between the aleatoric/chance operations methods of Cage and a cultural legacy that - while on the surface seeming to share a remarkable commonality in aesthetics - nevertheless conceals tremendous compositional intent as well.